1898 Movies

From one angle, a line of soldiers are shown walking up the gangplank.

"A double-decked trolley car, crowded with passengers, approaches and passes the camera. Carriages, pedestrians and bicyclists add to the action of th...

"Here was built the peerless battleship 'Oregon.' The scene is taken at lunch hour, and shows a great throng of employees leaving the shop."

Taken on 'Lucky' Baldwin's ranch, Santa Anita, Cal. Shows an engine and five cars approaching from a distance.

Directed by James H. White.

Magnificent action is displayed by this troop of Mexican cavalry. They approach at full speed, with drawn sabres, wheel rapidly, and charge in the opp...

In this movie, dancer Ella Lola performs a Turkish variation of a "Danse Du Ventre", the oriental belly dance. In her dance she shakes, twists and tur...

An active outdoor film with cattle being driven from an outdoor corral by mounted cowboys.

This film shows the summit portion of the Mill Valley and Mount Tamalpais Scenic Railway, the Tamalpais Tavern resort, and part of the adjacent east p...

Shows canal running through the suburban village of Santa Anita. Men and women pole their flat-bottom boats along, loaded down with garden produce.

Taken at Fingal, Cal., where the world-renowned 'Sunset Limited' trains pass each other.

A showcase of trapeze artist Alciede Capitaine, billed as “The Perfect Woman,” whose daring feats on the flying bar combined grace with breathtaking a...

Passage of a Shintoist procession, whose members carry banners and lanterns, somewhere in Kyoto.

Street scene of LA in 1898.

In front of each bare headed woman is a flat rock, used as a wash board. Stream of water near by.

Nero, seated on a throne, has slaves summoned. Each drinks poison and dies, the second even though he can see the corpse of his predecessor.

"The fashionable set is parading in the park, after church. The concourse is composed of all nationalities, including several groups of pretty senorit...

Skating scene.

Many gondolas in Venice harbour with a fishing boat in the background